Stephanie Dosen

Stephanie Dosen grew up on a peacock farm in
Wisconsin. One day while sifting through flotsam in the attic, Stephanie found
an old guitar covered in dust.It was
her secret prize. During the feather harvest while everyone was busy, Stephanie
would sneak up into the attic to write songs for boys at school.She would practice singing them to her two
favorite pets, a swan and a fox.

They
wanted to be a good audience so they clapped with their eyes. Stephanie now
writes for ghosts, mostly because they have proven nicer than boys. These days
her favorite pet is a rusty tape player named jean-pierre that follows her
everywhere. He has made it through 7 states and 2 minor sets of injuries but
still holds onto her twilight written songs with happiness.

Today the influence of the nightly peacock
mewing and swan swimming can still be heard in her music. Paste magazine says, “Stephanie Dosen delivers
the clear delicate voice of a quiet Sinéad O’Connor, the ethereal poetry of
Joni Mitchell and the soft pop strains of The Sundays…(her record) shines with
a moonlit glow.”Her songs have also
been featured on several television shows such as Numbers on CBS and Dawson’s
Creek.No one seems to really notice
that all she ever listened to was Olivia Newton John.

Her new record 'A Lily for the Spectre' is
filled with driving cradlesongs for ghosts gone astray.She has recently teamed horses with Simon
Raymonde (Bella Union, Cocteau Twins) who blesses a lily for the spectre with
bass and filigree sounds for lost peacocks.